The Mediating Role of Academic Self-efficacy in the Relationship between Academic Resilience and Academic Engagement in Medical and Paramedical Students

Considering that the university system should provide students with qualified and acceptable scientific and practical ability to deliver the community in order to provide high quality services to clients, considering the academic engagement of students as one of the predictors of academic performance in medical students is very important. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the mediator role of academic self-efficacy in relation to academic resilience with academic engagement in Students of medical and paramedical sciences in Zanjan University. The method of present research was correlation and the research society was included all of the students in Zanjan medical sciences university at the second term in 2018-19 that , according to the Morgan table, 346 members  were selected by random sampling method. The available tools in this research included academic engagement questionnaire (Reeve), academic resilience indicator (Samuels), and collegians academic self-efficacy scale (oun & farmen). In addition, data analysis was performed by the method of presenting a hypothectical model, and also assessing the relations was done by using structural equation pattern and LISREL 8.8 and SPSS24 softwares.Pearson correlation results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between academic resilience and academic self-efficacy with academic engagement, and also between academic resilience and academic self-efficacy (P< 0/01). Moreover, the path analysis result revealed that Academic self-efficacy played a mediating role in the relationship between academic resilience and students' academic engagement (P< 0/01).